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CHARLES GAGE.

Cooking Stove.

NO'. 122,451. l I Patent-e'dJamQ', 1872.

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i Mw@ @343W maww- CHARLES GAGE, OF S'I. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVIES.

A Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,451, dated January 2, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Cooking-Stoves,invented by CHARLES GAGE, of the city and county ot' St. Louis, and g State of Missouri.

The rst part ot my invention relates to the construction of an air-heating chamber in front of the grate, between the lire-plate and the' i'ront plate, the said air-chamber communicating by divingues at each side, with the ashpit beneath the lire-place. The second part of my improvement relates to the dumping-grate bottom, which is made solid so as to lit thcire place for wood, and to prevent the passage of air through it.I Cn. the under side ofthe dumpin late are curved ribs which besides stit't'- the latter and to heat the air.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion ot' a woodstove embodying my improvements, parts ofthe outer plates being broken away to exhibit the air-heatin g chamber in the top front, and one of the divingdues leading therefrom to the ash-pit. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the stove throughV the airchamber and divin g-ilues. Fig. 3 is an under perspective View ofthe dumping bottom plate.

A is the top plate of the stove, and B B2 the side plates. C is the hearth-plate, and o the ash-pit. E is the lire-plate, covering the whole front of the tire-space except a small portion immediately over the tilting` bottom plate D, the plate E extending to the side plates at each end and to the top plate A, and constituting the back Wall of the air-heating chamber H. E2 is a corrugated portion oi' the plate E, the corrugations preventing the warping of the plate by unequal expansion from heat. e is a horizontal forwardly-proj ectin g part ot' the fire-plate comin g in close contact with the plate F and forming the bottom of the air-chamber H, (a portion of e being broken away to show the fron't edge of the dumping plate, and the course of the air in entering the ire.) e2 are the vertically-descending ends of the part e, Whose outer edges are in close contact With the front plate F, and which constitute the inner neath the edge of the plate E into the tire, as

shown by arrows. The joints of the hearth C2 and sliding doors Iv (one of which is removed) are made nearly airwtight, so that all the air to feed th'e tire may, if desired, be made to en ter through the register j' G, and beneath the bottom plate ot' the tire-place. The dumping plate 'D is supported on pivots d, resting in the plate D2, so that it can be turnednp on edge to clear the tire-place. d? are curvedribs on the lower side 'of the dumping plate, said ribs serving to sti'cn the plate longitudinally and transversely, 4and also to deect the air in its passage from the diving-flugs h to the throat T, and cause it to come in contact with the hottest part ot' the plate-namely, that part in front of the gap d3, between the ends of the ribs. The register f G may, it'.pret'erred, be applied to the top plate A immediately over the'air-chamber H, and would opera-te in the same manner as if in the front of the stove, as shown.

I claim as my invention l. The combination of the register f G, airchamber H, and diving-dues h, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The solid dumping plate D, by which the air is heated and forced to enter into thefront or" the nre-place, as set forth.

3. In combination with the solid dumping plate D, the detlecti n g stiffening-ribs d2 having a central gap, d3, substantial-ly as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set. my hand.

, CHARLES GAGE.

Witnesses: Y

SAML. KNIGHT,

R.- T. BRADLEY. [(154) 

